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Returning home
For breakfast some of us ordered pancakes that were so thick we could barely finish them. After we had finished packing and tidying, we left the house to get lunch. On our way to the restaurant we passed the Grand Central station and checked out the station building. From there we walked to the restaurant. …
Rocking the last day of work
Today was our last day of work. So we finished our final tasks. Meanwhile Sam did the last interviews for the video. Some of us were already done by noon so they did some shopping and just waited in the city for the rest to finish. Afterwards we all met at the Union Square and …
Last day
Thursday was our last day before our flight back. We packed all our belongings in the morning, so we would have time to visit the Metropolitan Museum. We were on our way to the museum and took a small break in Union Square to have lunch. We arrived at the museum around 3pm and made …
Surprise Visit
This morning most of us worked from home, and enjoyed the slow start into the day. For Lunch we met up with Leonie, and discussed the Production of the promotional videos, which we’ll film. After that we went to work, and shot lots of material, including interviews of us apprentices and some employers. One of …
The One World Observatory
Our last week in New York just started. Simon and I (Sam) were alone in the office, but we got the task to have a look at the presentation of our employers. They had the chance to present their startup at the Blockchain Innovation Summit in Pebble Beach. The communication between Simon und me and …
A walk across the Brooklyn Bridge
After a nice long sleep, we started getting ready because we wanted to cross the Brooklyn Bridge. As we were on our way we were undetermined if we should go over the Manhattan Bridge or the Brooklyn Bridge. Somehow we ended up at the Manhattan Bridge and walked from Brooklyn to New York City. From …
Coney Island
We slept for a very long time today. The last person to wake up, woke up at 11:30 am. While the last sleepyheads were getting ready, we ordered some pancackes for our breakfast. At 01:00pm we made our way to Coney Island. We were about one and half hour in the train. When we arrived …
Hard Rock Friday
Duarte and I started our morning with a call from our GZA supervisor. We got some new tasks for which we mainly had to do structural changes. For example, on the “Our Team” page there used to be following segments of employers: Switzerland, USA and China. We had to replace it with Europe, USA, China, Korea, Marketing …
discovering Koreatown
This morning, we accidentally boarded the wrong train, which led to us discovering Koreatown. On our little detour we found lots of great-looking restaurants, which we’ll try to find the time to check out. After quickly exploring a korean bookstore, where we couldn’t find a single english book, we arrived (not even late) at the …
Work hard, play hard
This Wednesday was the final development sprint of the Chatdesk Sales Tool I am working on. In the morning Andrew and I decided to use Amazon AWS to host the App. This means the app is public available and I had to add a simple Login Form. At 12 o’clock Miriam, Aneto and I ate Lunch together. This was a perfect chance to learn more …
Reporter Leonie and cameraman Sam
The day started at the Rise office, where Simon and I (Sam) worked together on the website for the energy provider startup and started with the improvements we got from our employer. It was stuff like adjusting images, text sizes and layout bugs, so nothing major. I also had some minor tasks like creating business …
Working with an amazing view
Today was probably the busiest of all the days we have already had here. We had to leave the house early so we would be on time. We met Leonie and Adrian in front of the United Nations building. First, we met a friend of Leonie who works at the United Nations as a judge. …
A Sunday at the Central Park
Even though it was Sunday, we didn’t sleep in and got up at 9am to see the Central Park. Getting there took us some time because we had to change trains multiple times. We met Leonie at the Apple Store. In the park we just walked around, enjoyed the nature and how peaceful it was …
Shopping in New Jersey
This weekend was for us to enjoy, since no one had to work. We went to New Jersey to go shopping at The Mills at Jersey Gardens but first, we made a stop at the tear drop memorial. We spent a very long time at the mall. At 6pm we decided to head back home. …
Casual Friday
Today was a productive Day. Sam, Simon, Miriam and I started early and we arived at the office around 9:00 am. I solved my problem with the Hubspot API and released a first prototype of my sales tool for ChatDesk. In the afternoon Andrew invited me to a salesmeeting about identifying Customer Success milestones. After …
A day at work
Duarte and I are working for Greater Zurich Area during our stay in New York. Our job is to help them get all the data from the current website to the new website. In this process we are for example copying all their Blogs to the new site, testing all the links in the articles, …
Creating a corporate identity
Since today – apart from grocery-shopping and work – not much has happened, I will write a little about the work, Sam and I are currently doing. Here in New York we got the amazing opportunity to create a whole Corporate Identity for a very young energy-startup. This includes everything from logo-, businesscard- and template-design, …
Visiting a major Swiss bank
Today we were invited to a larger Swiss bank here in New York. We had a hosted tour through very interesting parts of the bank, such as the trading floor and their internal support. The tour began at 12:00 pm, where we were welcomed into one of their meeting rooms. They had one of the …
Starting a new project
Today, Severin and I started our new job at ChatDesk. We met at ten and started with a briefing about the company and the projects. One of my new coworkers explained to me what I will be doing while I’m here. ChatDesk has a tool that sorts customer messages into different categories. It’s already fairly …
Busy Saturday
This was our first weekend after our first work week! We were all still experiencing a little jetlag and decided to take it easy. We had planned on going to New Jersey, to go shopping, but Severin and Miriam had to go to Adrian’s office and keep working for their project at “Tenlegs”. They were …
Steak & Shopping
After coordinating breakfast, showers & morning exercise, we headed to work. Luckily the weather had cooled of quite a bit, which made the subway ride a little more bearable. We ate lunch together at the Outback Steakhouse and discovered some of the best mac n cheese we had ever tasted. After work we all met …
Visiting the Swiss Consulate
Today we had the opportunity to visit the Swiss Consulate in New York. We met Adrian at a coffee shop right across from the building where the Consulate is. There we ate and drank something, and Simon tried to teach Severin a way to adjust his tie. All dressed up we headed towards the Consulate. …
New Chance at Rise
For me and Miriam our first day of “work” was quite relaxing, as we started our first meeting with a Rise startup at 14:30. We did the laundry and went grocery shopping in the free time before that. I worked on improving our blogs’ design. At twelve o’clock we left our house to get to …
The first day at the office
First stop today was at the WeWork offices of New York in the 25th Broadway next to the Charging Bull. We had a cup of cold brew coffee and some fruity water, while we waited for Oliver, the head of SwissNex in New York. Together with his colleagues Jake and Estelle, he told us what …
Manhattan Tour
Today, Adrian gave us a tour of manhattan. We met Adrian and Barbara at 12:00pm in South Ferry and started our journey with the Charging Bull and the Wall Street. The next stop was the World Trade Center. The World Trade Center number 7 contains the Open Systems office. After a quick burger stop, we continued our way …
Our first whole day in New York
On our first morning in New York, we got up one after another. Most of us suffered from jetlag and couldn’t sleep anymore after 8am. We just spent time at home until we got hungry. So we decided to go to Brooklyn Blend, a small restaurant with freshly made snacks and shakes. We all got …
Arrival
After a very long flight, we finally arrived at the JFK Airport. We also had a very long time getting through all the security checks. In the end we took the subway and made our way to the apartment in Brooklyn. On our way to the aprtment, we had our first impression of the famous …
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Returning home
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